Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged world leaders meeting in Peru on Saturday to help get more people online to improve global living standards while separately announcing new measures to cut down on fake news stories on the social network that some suggest could have ...

Chinese websites are censoring the nickname “Kim Fatty the Third,” widely used to disparage North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, after officials from his country reportedly conveyed their displeasure in a meeting with their Chinese counterparts. Searches for the Chinese words “Jin San Pang” ...

The far-right news site Breitbart helped send Donald Trump to the White House with no-holds barred opinions and incendiary headlines that drew fire from mainstream media and pundits. Now, it seems, it wants to take that movement global. Growing out of its origins as ...

Fake election news got more attention than real stories on Facebook during the final months of the U.S. presidential campaign, according to an analysis published Wednesday by BuzzFeed News. The online news outlet found that the 20 top-performing bogus stories from hoax websites and ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has denied suggesting that countries such as Japan and South Korea should go nuclear, while an aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Washington on Monday to prepare for a meeting Thursday between Trump and Abe in New ...

Nagoya has been featured heavily in magazines and TV programs recently as the city that people hate the most. Magazines and broadcasters are branding the people of Nagoya as closed-minded and stingy, and ridiculing its unique cuisine, including toast with sweet red bean paste. ...

In a world where users have access to torrents of online information, BuzzFeed Japan sees vetting and correcting stories published by other media as one of its major reasons for being. Major media outlets are “very powerful, and it’s meaningful to run that amount ...

NewsPicks is a Japan-oriented financial news website focused on new technologies and IT, using corporate reporters to target young, tech-savvy readers. This is according to the company’s reporters themselves, who are newly recruited from the “old media” weekly business magazine Diamond, which, like other ...

It’s the British royals versus the press — again — and Prince Harry thinks enough is enough. In a highly unusual statement, the prince on Tuesday lashed out at the media for intruding on the privacy of his new girlfriend, American actor Meghan Markle. ...

A Ku Klux Klan newspaper has declared support for Donald Trump’s Republican run for U.S. president, saying America became great because it was a white, Christian republic. The Crusader, one of the white supremacist group’s most prominent publications, published a lengthy endorsement and defense ...

Turkey said it has dismissed a further 10,000 civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets over suspected links with terrorist organizations and U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup in July. More than 100,000 people had already been ...